At once erudite and colloquial ( New Yorker ), this Book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry In Don\'t Read Poetry , poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry.
A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don\'t Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike..
She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about poetry, whether we think we like it or think we don\'t, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems.
Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter.
She shows readers how to find more Poems once they have some Poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present.
Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how Poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives.
At once erudite and colloquial ( New Yorker ), this Book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry In Don\'t Read Poetry , poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry
